Rails spinoffs - Feb 2007 - dragging elements over form elements(textarea)

Hi, i am using scriptaculous Draggables with a textarea as a
Droppable. It works just fine, but in IE the textarea will appear on
top of the dragged element (covering it) no matter what. Oddly enough,
dropping the Draggable onty it still works fine. Googeling around a
bit I got the sense that some browsers treat form element as floating
above the html and that there is no fix. Is this true, or was anybody
able to work around this issue? Thanks! Ingo


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It''s because IE renders form fields as native components, and renders
native components on top no matter what.  It''s been an issue since day
#1.  Maybe you can fiddle around with z-index on CSS or stuff like that,
but I wouldn''t be too sure.

Anyone more expert on this than me around here?

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Christophe Porteneuve wrote:
> It''s because IE renders form fields as native components, and
renders
> native components on top no matter what.  It''s been an issue since
day
> #1.  Maybe you can fiddle around with z-index on CSS or stuff like that,
> but I wouldn''t be too sure.
Neither z-index or CSS will help. The only thing I''ve found that will
help is to
detect if the browser is IE6 or less (IE7 doesn''t have this problem)
and then
insert an iframe under your element of the same size as your element. This will
hide the control.

I know browser sniffing is usually considered bad, but if there''s a way
to find
out if the browser has this problem without sniffing type and version number,
I''d like to know.

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Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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